Private Equity Roundtable on Responsible AI
We invite GPs and LPs to join our inaugural Private Equity Roundtable on Responsible AI. This event aims to foster a collaborative environment for private equity firms to discuss and develop standards, policies, and guidelines for responsible AI adoption. Participants will explore the ethical, legal, and operational implications of AI within both private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
Key Discussion Points:
Challenges: Sharing what the industry is facing in bias, fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI systems.
Legal and Regulatory Landscape: Navigating evolving regulations and compliance requirements.
Operational Implications: Implementing AI responsibly within private equity firms and portfolio companies.
Best Practices: Sharing insights and experiences in successful AI adoption.
Co-developing Standards: Collaborating to create industry-wide guidelines and standards.
Subject Matter Expert Moderators:
Lukasz Szpruch, Alan Turing Institute
Jane Finlayson-Brown, A&O Shearman
Michelle Seng Ah Lee, WovenLight
Moderator Bios:
Lukasz is a Professor at the School of Mathematics, the University of Edinburgh, and the Programme Director for Finance and Economics at the Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science and AI. He is the Principle Investigator of the research programme FAIR on responsible adoption of AI in the financial services industry.
Jane is Global Co-Head of Digital, Data, IP and Technology at A&O Shearman and specialises in data protection and digital projects and transactions. Jane’s transactional practice includes helping clients with transformational digitalisation projects with data and AI. Jane also regularly advises on a wide range of other data protection issues. Jane has been advising a number of clients on AI and the EU AI Act and parallel developments in the UK.
Michelle is the Deployment Principal at WovenLight and a leader in applied artificial intelligence with over 10 years of experience. Prior to WovenLight, Michelle was a Senior Manager and the AI Guild Lead at Deloitte, where she specialised in the design and development of AI systems, including chatbots, Trustworthy AI tools, and LLM use cases. Michelle completed her PhD in Computer Science & Technology at the University of Cambridge specialising in the mitigation of unintended biases in AI lifecycles.
Participation:
This roundtable is by invitation only, limited to 20 attendees, and will be conducted under Chatham House Rules, ensuring that participants can speak freely without attribution. We will send out a survey as pre-work for the attendees to understand the varying levels of maturity in this space and help shape the agenda.
The event will be in-person in a central London location; however, there will be a concurrent Zoom roundtable for the remote attendees. Please specify at the time of sign-up whether you will attend in-person or remotely.
Timing:
3pm-3:30pm Arrival and sign in
3:30pm-5pm Roundtable
5pm-6pm Networking drinks